We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Hate can pardon more than love.

The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.